Comments on: This spammer's stash could be yours

Gold bars, cash and a fully loaded Hummer H2 are among the prizes AOL is offering as it celebrates a settlement with a spammer.

And good for you AOL, too

Nice to see these companies getting agressive towards spammers. Hope they keep it up.

[SteveBarry687]

Being agressive is one thing

But, it is another thing entirely to use this win to drum up hits on their website by holding a contest. They outta sell all this stuff and send everyone in the US a check for $2.00 for time wasted deleting the spam sent out from their servers.

[Johnny Mnemonic]

What about the companies?

The money came from somewhere, did it not?
Who pays the spammers? Answer: companies selling
their crap! I ask you, who is really the culprit?
As long as this is a lucrative way of making money,
there will always be spammers. Ofcourse, this
would be too politically intractable to go after
the real source of the problem. Treating the
symptom instead of the "real" problem solves
nothing.

[George Cole]

politically intractable

http://www.analogstereo.com/jaguar_x-type_owners_manual.htm

[volterwd]

Well...

i appreciate the donating the computers to the schools... PR stunt no doubt... but im sure the kids wont care